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Gaza Journalist Abubaker Abed on Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Threat

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🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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WATCH the video of this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/D0LaSJqnI-I Abby Martin speaks with Abubaker Abed in Gaza City, a Palestinian journalist who reported through the 15 months of Israeli genocide, about Trump's threats and the status of the ceasefire. FOLLOW Abubaker on Twitter: https://x.com/abubakerabedw READ his work on Substack: https://substack.com/@abubakerabedw EMPIRE FILES VIDEOS + MERCH + SOCIALS + PATREON + EXCLUSIVE CONTENT :: https://linktr.ee/empirefiles

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0:00.0

These are not my words, but the words of every single one here.

0:10.0

Standing here, after 459 days of the most well-documented in first life-esteem genocide in history. You've seen us killed in every possible way.

0:25.6

We've been emulated, incinerated, dismembered and disemboweled,

0:32.6

and recently we've been freezing to death.

0:36.6

What more ways should you be seeing us, Keldon,

0:42.3

so that you can move and act and stop the hell inflicted upon us? Our message is very clear.

0:51.3

We are journalists and we are Palestinian journalists. We have been led down by the

0:58.6

international community, particularly the international media organizations. We haven't seen any sort of

1:05.8

support, a single word of support. Even the press vests we're wearing right now, Marcus is a target.

1:13.6

They do not protect us at all. But yes, because we are Palestinians, maybe if we were

1:21.6

Ukrainians or of any other citizenship with blonde hair and blue eyes, the word with rage and rant for us.

1:32.1

But because we are Palestinians, we have only one right, which is to die and be named.

1:39.6

I'm now joined by the journalist you just saw in that video, Abu Bakr, Abed, a Palestinian reporter based in Gaza.

1:47.2

Abu Bakr, thank you so much for joining me on the Empire Files. It's such a huge honor to talk to you.

1:53.2

You're so welcome. I'm so glad to tell to you, and this really means to me so much. So, yeah,

1:59.8

I'm really pleased, and it's very, very nice up to you today.

2:03.1

You've been working incredibly hard.

2:06.6

I'm so proud of your work.

2:09.6

I've been following you very closely.

2:11.6

I mean, I guess let's first just talk about the announcement from Donald Trump

2:15.6

to ethnically cleanse Gaza, talking about how Gaza's

2:19.4

hell, how it's a demolition site, next to the grinning genocide fugitive who oversaw

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